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By the Same Author
Calling the Doves / El canto de las palomas. Story by Juan Felipe Herrera and pictures by Elly Simmons.
Grandma and Me at the Flea / Los meros meros remateros. Story by Juan Felipe Herrera and illustrations by Anita DeLucio-Brock.
The Super Cilantro Girl / La superniña del cilantro. Story by Juan Felipe Herrera and illustrations by Honorio Robledo Tapia.
The Upside Down Boy / El niño de cabeza. Story by Juan Felipe Herrera and illustrations by Elizabeth Gómez.
Moving to a New CommunityMy Diary from Here to There / Mi diario de aquí hasta allá. Story by Amada Irma Pérez and illustrations by Maya Christina Gonzalez.
Books From Other Publishers
Kent, Deborah. The Disabilities Rights Movement. Childrens Press, 1996.
Lutkenhoff, Marlene. Spinabilities: A Young Persons Guide to Spina Bifida. Woodbine House, 1997.
McMahon, Patricia. Dancing Wheels. Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Rabe, Berniece. Margarets Moves. Scholastic Paperbacks, 1998.
For more books on disability, see the online booklists below.Websites:
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For information on the effects of spina bifida, go to the Spina Bifida Association of America. The website has a wide range of fact sheets about the condition, advocacy links, and support program information.
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The KidsHealth website has many resources for both children and caregivers. If you search spina bifida, you will find articles explaining the condition for adult and young audiences, as well as explanations of wheelchair use and other related issues.
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To learn more about some of the challenges facing differently-abled athletes, visit the
Special Olympics website, which serves athletes with intellectual disabilities, as well as their coaches and families.
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For extensive annotated booklists of childrens literature featuring differently-abled children, go to www.math.ttu.edu/~dmettler/dlit.html and ericec.org/fact/kidbooks.html.
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Miguel De Loza is a fifth grade bilingual Language Arts and Social Studies teacher at Garfield Charter School in Menlo Park, CA. Building on the strengths of students' cultures, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences, Garfield Charter School cultivates the values of respect, responsibility, and community involvement. The school's mission is to continue to provide a replicable, sustainable, equitable model for quality education in Spanish and English.
Alexandra Freidus, former Director of Community Partnerships at Children's Book Press, teaches integrated Language Arts and Social Studies at Berkeley High School. Alexandra was a consultant for this Teacher's Guide.
Loretta Torres is a second grade bilingual two-way (Spanish Immersion and Spanish as a Second Language) teacher at Fairmount Elementary School in San Francisco, CA. Fairmount views all members of the community as teachers and learners, offering many programs supporting learning for families as well as students.
Christina Velasco is a fourth and fifth grade teacher at Fairmount Elementary School's Spanish immersion program. She is a Bay Area Writing Project teacher consultant and taught a writing course for educators at UC Berkeley in the summer of 2004.
Please share your own ideas for how to use Featherless/Desplumado in the classroom. We'll be pleased to post your work on the website for other teachers to use. Email us your lesson plans at educators@childrensbookpress.org.
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